Mr. Foxen

Stuff taken out of context is boring.

What's the deal with all the holes drilled in it?

See the bracing would weight more that the skin to be appropriate to that. You seem to be ignoring the whole making it right thing.

Well braced means braced appropriate to the material though. The trade off is weight and labour, you design in sufficient bracing, and being DIY cabs, the labour is free, so its sensible to go for the more bracing and lighter material.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1349725548' post='1829753'] How about if we applied this sort of logic to other forms of paid work? Every time you clean your own home . . . . you spoil the market for cleaners who [u]need[/u] to be paid. Every time you change your own strings . . . . you spoil the market for luthiers who [u]need[/u] to be paid. Every time you decorate your own home . . . . you spoil the market for painters who [u]need[/u] to be paid. Every time you [[i]insert job example here[/i]] . . . . you spoil the market for someone who [u]needs[/u] to be paid. That's life - get used to it. [/quote] Musicians making home studios for their stuff and doing pro studios out of their money.

The best match thing is such a load of BS. But the fact Ebay hide some items from showing in the listings for the first day sometimes is the real pain in the nuts.

I'll learn my way round what I get, jsut want to start out right. Watching ebay to snag a good price on one of these Zoom jobs then.

Behringer hold no value, so as a working thing, good price, but you'd probably struggle to get it sold, especially carved up.

+1 on it being an impedance thing.

Don't get the Orange would be m advice for a start. The Ashdown 1x15 with a neo in it that was in for sale is probably a good call. Another £100 takes you into Barefaced compact territory and that is fairly endgame.

[quote name='spinynorman' timestamp='1349566705' post='1827891'] Haven't we seen this before? Dealers put up the ad to take advantage of a free listing day and add the details later. [/quote] Free listing day is for auction style rather than buy it now generally, there hasn't been a buy it now free listing day for ages.

Someone should have taken bets.

Ha, what do you call a professional? Once you are in a position to be pro, you either get beholden to endorsers or ask for stuff to be supplied to you for gigs/tours. Plenty of pretty serious gigs using them though. Mine has been lent to a fair few as supplied backline.

A BCer I know played in a band with all the keyboards on backing tracks, that still had all the bass in. As an added bonus, when asked why not have a live keyboardist, they claim the keyboard parts are so complex they'd need 7 keyboardists to cover them. suspect they don't know about that think where you have multiple fingers on your hands typically.

Open back is probably a guitar cab, so a guitar speaker, and no eqing in lots of bottom.

[quote name='Wiggybass' timestamp='1349446983' post='1826481'] Is the T48 a horn-loaded cab, I'm not familiar with it? I know SB850s very well though, they are direct-radiating and were top of the tree in their day. [/quote] http://www.billfitzmaurice.com/T48.html

Horn loaded changes the deal, since the radiating area is the horn mouth, not the speaker cone.

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1349437460' post='1826267'] This doesn't matter when cabs are connected in parallel. [/quote] How does it work with cabs paired, one sealed one ported, like this, are used together: At around the frequency where the sealed cab has a impedance peak in the lows, does it mean that most of the power goes through the sealed cab with its lower impedance, and then be subject to the poor sensitivity of the cab that low, or do they behave the same individually as they would alone, because the voltage is still the same?

Also missed that impedance varies with frequency as well as phase, and fairly sure that can make fun with mismatched cabs too, picturing a ported cab with the big impedance peak at a frequency where the paired cab is not sensitive, resulting in more power going to the less sensitive cab at that frequency.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1349435738' post='1826229'] Barefaced have a pop-up door...what does that do? [/quote] For the tone.

You can get 200w from 4 EL34 if you run them right, most modern ones probably won't take it, and it isn't the standard way of running them: http://www.chambonino.com/construct/const7.html

I started doing grounding wire in guitars with solid wire, from leftover bits of mains cable from sorting the house electrics. Means that if your pot nuts come loose, the hard wire soldered to it stops it rotating or falling inside, ditto with the jack socket.

Have fun finding flat on the controls on an Ampeg. It isn't knobs in the middle. If you have a VT bass, might be able to go into an fx return if they have one, but don't think it will have the juice to do that.

[quote name='Chienmortbb' timestamp='1349337054' post='1824765'] With regards to the Cab design, I don't believe that most Bass cabs are designed to HiFi standards and if you take some of the best bass cabinets and put the figures through WinISD or another Cabinet Emulator, you will find that the response is far from flat. [/quote] Do that with hifi stuff and you find the same.